Lyrics:

As I walked out on Clifton Hill
One day as sulphur raindrops fell
I heard a hawker cry, "You will
Be psyched by what I have to sell
My wares are from the mystic East
From secret fields of Africa
And marshalled by the vampire priests
Who bloodstain South America"
Come buy (come buy) my life (my love)
My silver dart of cupid's fall
Believe (believe) the lie (my love)
Come buy and she believed it all
By Radcliffe Highway's dark estate
A gleaming dockside tower rose
The vapours spread beyond the gate
To taxi ranks and West End shows
The would-be glitterati creep
Who penguin suited drags you down
Will stand and watch you while you sleep
And dream of kings in paper crowns
Come buy (come buy) my life (my love)
My silver dart of cupid's fall
Believe (believe) the lie (my love)
Come buy and she believed it all
We talked of porous rock and blues
Of seepage where the spring line ends
Of fractured mains and petrol queues
Of flooded courts and long lost friends
Then hyphenately looking on
The mansion trash who hold the reigns
Who ride us hard and then are gone
Like missiles down their private lanes
Come buy (come buy) my life (my love)
My silver dart of cupid's fall
Believe (believe) the lie (my love)
Come buy and she believed it all
Come buy (come buy) my life (my love)
My silver dart of cupid's fall
Believe (believe) the lie (my love)
Come buy and she believed it all